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White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,135
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Ramsey
Washington
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Excelsior-Lake Minnetonka Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$620
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Hennepin
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City of St. Paul
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$820
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Ramsey
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City of St. Cloud
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$575
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Benton
Sherburne
Stearns
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City of Maplewood
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$925
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Ramsey
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Olmsted County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To conduct and inventory and cataloging project of 3-dimensional artifacts in OCHS' collections.
Olmsted
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Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$147,000

CMSM opened its new permanent site with increased capacity to serve as an informal learning center that playfully engages children, families, and school groups in interactive experiences with the art and cultural heritage of southern Minnesota. With its current appropriation, CMSM is poised to strengthen its core as an institution that promotes arts and cultural heritage learning through continued

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Todd County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,385
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.
Todd
Douglas
Morrison
Stearns
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Mower County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,345
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.
Dodge
Freeborn
Mower
Olmsted
Steele
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St. Louis Park Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer and computer to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.
Hennepin
Recipient
Project for Pride in Living, Inc.
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$81,000
To hire qualified professionals to conduct a re-use assessment and prepare planning documents for the H. Alden Smith House, part of the Minneapolis Community and Technical College campus and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Hennepin
Recipient
ALLY People Solutions
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,950
To hire qualified professionals to produce a manuscript commemorating the 50th anniversary of ALLY People Solutions.
Ramsey
Statewide
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Heart of the Earth, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,706
To unify, appraise, and arrange 1,000 lineal feet of historical records of the American Indian Movement under the direction of a qualified archivist.
Hennepin
Recipient
Olmsted County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
To send two people to the American Association of Museums annual meeting and conference, April 29-May 2, 2012, in Minneapolis.
Olmsted
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Clearwater County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000
To send one person to the American Association of Museums annual meeting and conference, April 29-May 2, 2012, in Minneapolis.
Clearwater
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Stearns History Museum and Research Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,867
To send two people to the American Association of Museums annual meeting and conference, April 29-May 2, 2012, in Minneapolis.
Stearns
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Minnesota African American Museum & Cultural Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$155,250
To design and install climate control that meets museum standards in order to better preserve collections that document African American history in Minnesota.
Hennepin
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Maplewood Area Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire qualified consultants to develop an exhibit on 3M's history with the City of Maplewood.
Ramsey
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Ramsey County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$74,259
Partner Organizations: Anoka County Historical Society, Dakota County Historical Society, Scott County Historical Society, and Ramsey County Historical Society Four county historical societies will begin a pilot program in 2015 to provide archaeology and cultural resource management outreach services to local history organizations in the seven-county metro area.The pilot project will address immediate needs of participating organizations, including public programming, data collection, collections care and staff training, while also providing valuable insight into long-term needs of local his
Dakota
Ramsey
Scott
Anoka
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Paynesville Area Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,820
To provide better organization of archival materials which will allow the public greater access to the community
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Stearns
Recipient
Ramsey County Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,976

To hire a qualified professional to assess the archival collections held by Ramsey County Historical Society.

Ramsey
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Stearns History Museum
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,968
To hire a qualified consultant to conduct an audience analysis for Stearns History Museum.
Stearns
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Minnesota Newspaper Foundation
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,600
To hire a qualified consultant to conduct an audience analysis of visitors during the State Fair.
Ramsey
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Richfield Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,960
To hire a qualified professional to update the interpretation of the Riley Bartholomew House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Hennepin
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Beth El Foundation of Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900

To hire a qualified historian to research the history of Beth El Synagogue in Minnesota.

Hennepin
Ramsey
St. Louis
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Wayzata Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To print and publish a biography on a turn of the twentieth-century Lake Minnetonka resident, Royal C. Moore of Moore Boat Works.
Hennepin
Recipient
Ce Tempoxcalli
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To construct a historically accurate account and thorough context of the 1995 Hunger Strike.

Stearns
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Equity Alliance MN
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000

The Equity Alliance MN will bring to life absent narratives of Latino, Hmong, Native, Asian, African American, and women of the Civil Rights Era in a collaboration among youth, social studies teachers, Full Circle Theater (FCT), and St. Paul Neighborhood Network. The narratives, researched by youth, will be transformed by FCT into a six person play that will be presented, video recorded, and distributed with accompanying curriculum written by social studies teachers for teachers across the Equity Alliance MN and the state.

Anoka
Dakota
Ramsey
Washington
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Science Museum of Minnesota
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,988
To hire a qualified archaeologist to conduct an inventory of archaeological plant remains from an Oneota village near Red Wing.
Goodhue
Ramsey
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Minnesota Museum of American Art
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,356
To fully catalog the museum's inventoried collection that documents the history of art in Minnesota under the direction of a qualified museum registrar.
Ramsey
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Prairie Skyline Foundation, Inc.
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,000
To hire a qualified architect to prepare a conditions assessment and planning documents for the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, proposed to be used as a community center, and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Becker
Beltrami
Clay
Clearwater
Hubbard
Kittson
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
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Cedar Lake Park Preservation and Development Association dba Cedar Lake Park Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To publish a history of the Cedar Lake Park Association, a volunteer citizens' group.

Hennepin
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Westonka Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,200
To hire a qualified and experienced HVAC engineer to evaluate the current system in preparation for better control of the Westonka Historical Society museum environment.
Hennepin
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Historic Saint Paul
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To hire a qualified historic preservation specialist to assess potential impacts on and reuses for up to five buildings along the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit Line.
Ramsey
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Central High School Parent Advisory Council
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire a qualified historian to research the 150-year history of St. Paul's Central High School.

Ramsey
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Children's Discovery Museum
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$142,500

The Children's Discovery Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota aims to strengthen its highly successful School Service Program by retaining a Program development coordinator, changing core interactive exhibits and creating new curriculum for pre-school and K - 5 students in ten northern Minnesota counties.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
St. Louis
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White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire qualified professionals to stabilize the structural system of the Charles P. Noyes Cottage (Fillebrown House), listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
Washington
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Friends of Christ Church Lutheran
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,000
To hire a qualified and experienced historian to prepare a Historic Structure Report that will guide future preservation projects
Hennepin
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The Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,350
To hire a qualified architect to conduct a conditions assessment of the Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Stearns
Todd
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Minnesota Museum of American Art
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,660

To gain physical and intellectual control through a professional inventory of remaining uninventoried museum collections.

Ramsey